Charter of the Forest

Henry III sealed the Charter of the Forest. This gave back some of the rights of the people over the forest. William I had made 22 ‘Royal Forests’ where only Royalty or guests could hunt and poor people were not allowed to put up fences (which meant keeping animals in was very difficult!) By agreeing the poor people could do more things in the forest he made it much fairer.

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